We may have been neglecting the blog - and once again we'll try hard to do better - but nonetheless we've been busy in the past months. Looking forward, here are details of a clutch of forthcoming events involving Illuminations more
Links to articles and videos that have engaged me over the past week and more, starting with three essential Brexit-related essays. With thanks to those who alerted me to many on Twitter and elsewhere. • How the Brexiteers broke history: more
Links to articles and videos that have caught my eye in the past week or more - thanks, as always, to those on Twitter and elsewhere that drew my attention to them. • The fashion photography of Marilyn Stafford - more
Links to articles and videos that have caught my eye over the past week or so - thanks, as always, to those who alerted me to many of them. • A long overdue light on black models of early modernism: more
Links to articles that attracted my attention in the three weeks (apologies!) since the last of these columns, plus the occasional video. There are some especially strong film-related articles this week. Many thanks to those who recommended many of these more
I have written a book (well, almost) - and now that it is on Amazon and the website of the publisher Bloomsbury - I feel I can make a modest announcement. Publication is not until next June, but it more
Links to interesting stuff that has caught my eye over the past week, with the usual thanks to Twitter recommenders and others. • Trump engaged in suspect tax schemes as he reaped riches from his father: truly remarkable investigative reporting from more
Even as I have been neglecting the Illuminations blog, for which apologies once more, I have been writing elsewhere. Today's brief entry here points to a post I've written for a History of the BBC blog; below there is news more
To BFI Southbank on Monday for a triple bill of television dramas by women playwrights: The Tamer Tamed, 1956, by Elaine Morgan (above); Still Waters, 1972, by Julia Jones; and A Kind of Marriage, 1976, by Buchi Emecheta. The programme more
In the early evening on Tuesday and Thursday of this coming week, 2 and 4 October, Mark Rylance performs Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture Art, Truth & Politics as part of the excellent 'Pinter at the Pinter' season. These charity more